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- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
how individuals think about speaking up at work, we first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input was considered crucial. Qualitative data collected in 190 interviews with employees from all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
information about benefit programs probably warrant less protection. The next step is to review the people, processes, and technologies that support those assets, including external suppliers View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
sustainability, and top executive incentives are more likely to be a function of sustainability metrics. Moreover, they are more likely to have organized procedures for stakeholder engagement, to be more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
What happens when a person owns property? Aside from the well-established financial benefits of equity and potential access to credit, there is the equally strong pull of the American Dream and everything it... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
state-owned firms. This article examines how the founder of the Koç Group, Vehbi Koç, formulated his business model and analyses how his firm evolved into a diversified business group. Although the case View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
genetics, and a new technology, rDNA. American Home Products's financial success since its beginnings in the 1920s rested on the abilities of its managers to perfect functional capabilities as they moved... View Details
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
advance, and they even create the original information in a large percentage of the situations. Often, the press is way out there before the SEC," explains Miller. His wide-ranging survey of press outlets found no evidence to View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Successes and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 807-165 Bert Twaalfhoven (70; HBS '54) is faced with two offers to acquire the manufacturing holding company he had built up over 40 years. Despite the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
benefit function exhibits a satiation point, the environment can be described as a cooperative game with externalities. We show that the downstream incremental distribution is the unique distribution which both is fair according to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
earn points or rewards for all their spending on the card and advance to levels that make the rewards more easily achievable. Another way to support a more lucrative program is by finding other partners to... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
in their own way. Five barriers in particular tend to keep promising managers from becoming exceptional leaders: people overemphasize personal goals, protect their public image, turn their competitors into two-dimensional enemies, go it alone instead of soliciting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Camposol has evolved rapidly in recent years and is undergoing the challenges of transforming from family to professional management. This case allows students to consider Camposol’s growth, branding, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
improvement-oriented behaviors: 1) blockages to prevent workarounds, 2) a support person to assist with problem-solving, and 3) education portraying operational failures as "waste" to be removed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
Editor's note. On Sunday, the left-leaning Syriza party and its leader Alexis Tsipra won a decisive national victory in Greece, partly on pledges to reduce current austerity measures and to seek a... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
effects. His analysis suggests that major events occurring in response to periods of growth foster openness, tolerance, mobility, fairness, and democracy to support his thesis. The reverse is also true. He... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
firm-level indices of vertical integration for a large set of countries and industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in import tariffs to examine the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
practices of these CEOs and financial performance. There is already ample evidence to support this. We wanted to understand what this model of leadership looks like close up. Q: One key to success is that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
function of government is unlikely to fade away anytime soon. Q: You argue that risk management is a core function of the American government and that this has been true since... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
creativity. These findings have theoretical and practical implications for research in workplace diversity and creativity. The Microwork Solution: A New Approach to Outsourcing Can View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel